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Sparky Clarkson @sparkyclarkson.bsky.social · 10h

The MAGA crew has proven especially susceptible to AI manipulation. Don't pretend for a minute that means *you're* immune.

Anna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 10h

this video is AI generated. the reporter has three arms and people in the background phase in and out of each other, and it comes from an AI sharing account

be cautious with what you share these days, friends

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Anna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 10h

this video is AI generated. the reporter has three arms and people in the background phase in and out of each other, and it comes from an AI sharing account

be cautious with what you share these days, friends

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Sparky Clarkson @sparkyclarkson.bsky.social · 10h

avoiding deaths due to preventable disease is "democrat oriented", therefore "republican oriented" is...

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 11h

You would not fire these people—including the staff of the hugely, HUGELY important 'Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report'—if you cared at all about public health, if you wanted people to live.

And you would not let your thuggish henchmen fire people like this if you were a responsible president.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 12h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13h

These guys have gotten incredibly rich by fleecing the government with subpar tech that was designed for rentseeking rather than performance. A smart Dem agenda item would be to build internal tech capacity. The fact that it would punish these guys is just a silver lining.

Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 13h

Being a billionaire must really fuck with your mind. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 11h

Future Forward, the biggest Harris-aligned campaign, spent nearly $700 million on TV ads.

But TV ads have been shown to have almost zero effect just one week after they air, even w/no opposition ads.

The more ads you see, the less effective they are. isps.yale.edu/research/pub...

Inside the Secretive $700 Million Ad-Testing Factory for Kamala Harris

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 12h

illegal and dangerous

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 12h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 14h

That sound you hear is plaintiff lawyers popping champagne corks and DOJ lawyers groaning.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Q: How many layoffs have you authorized?

TRUMP: It'll be a lot. And it'll be Democrat-oriented.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 23h

A billion dollars is the socio-political equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work as ruthlessly and diligently to prevent the acquisition of the former as we do the latter.

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 1d

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 18h

Oh, does it benefit the US to provide aid to foreign countries? That would have been good to know back in January and February.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21h

“Stabilizing Argentina is ‘America First’.”

🇦🇷 🇺🇸

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elvoira @m01r4.bsky.social · 17h

if someone 21 years younger than janet mills has never written a cover letter before, how do you talk to janet mills about being a recent college grad and not knowing how to get a job?

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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 19h

And the lawsuits will follow promptly. Government shutdowns give presidents no additional authority to dismiss federal workers. We’ll fight these outrageous assaults on civil servants and public services.

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Sparky Clarkson @sparkyclarkson.bsky.social · 18h

The fee, of course, can be waived if you fill out a forty-page application proving your income falls below a level defined by your area of residence and an easy-to-calculate 5th-order polynomial function.

Sparky Clarkson @sparkyclarkson.bsky.social · 19h

Look, everybody knows the Democrats don't use paid protesters because if they did, they would require "Protest Professionals" to have an official certification that needs two years of training, has a $1350 application fee, and is not transferable between states.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 21h

The fact that they are still doing the "Soros-paid protestors" bit is just an incredible testimony to the durability of certain tropes to negate the popular will, regardless of the lack of evidence.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19h

Authoritarian systems tend towards corruption because they a) attract people disinterested in maintaining public goods, and b) systematically remove guardrails and accountability to enable private capture of those goods

Dan Friedman @dfriedman.bsky.social · 20h

How a New Firm With DHS Ties Won a $915 Million Contract to Help Immigrants "Self-Deport."
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 1d

Do you really have any rights if they are openly saying they will just make up reasons to detain you?

thematthill.bsky.social @thematthill.bsky.social · 3d

Wow. Greg Bovino admits on camera that his agents can detain people if you look scared, change your demeanor, or grip a steering wheel too tight.

As his unmasked agents walk around with large guns to scare you, they may arrest you just for that — even if you're a U.S. citizen.

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A Dead Weird Carnie @ecarney.bsky.social · 19h

I'm not an expert and have no specific data to back this up, but it seems to me that Democrats spend a shit ton of money trying to assess whether or not their positions are mainstream, while Republicans focus on spending money to MAKE their positions mainstream.

Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 20h

You may not realize this, but Democrats have *more money* available to them than Republicans do.

But Republicans are fucking masters at efficiency and network marketing. They maximize every dollar.

Democratic organizations keep hiring the same failed consultants. They need new blood.

Kamala Harris raised $488 million more than Donald Trump | World News - The Times of India

US News: Explore the dramatic fundraising figures between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump in the 2024 Presidential race. Harris raises $633 million, while Trump secures $145 million. Discover key donor...

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 21h

Three key points:
1) The admin has been planning mass firings to begin in October since February
2) The work necessary to carry out mass firings is illegal during a shutdown, violating the Antideficiency Act, which carries a criminal penalty
3) This harms America, ridding us of talent and expertise

Russ Vought v @russvought
The RIFs have begun.
12:27 PM • 10/10/25 • 15K Views

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 20h

The RIFs began months ago. This is just recycled DOGE, just as unpopular and just as illegal.

Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 21h

Three key points:
1) The admin has been planning mass firings to begin in October since February
2) The work necessary to carry out mass firings is illegal during a shutdown, violating the Antideficiency Act, which carries a criminal penalty
3) This harms America, ridding us of talent and expertise

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 23h

you go out to these protests, it's kids, old folks, grannies, all kinds of people, and they're still going with "professional protesters" which I guess maybe works on the fox news crowd? but nobody else

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 1d

This video is everywhere because it's a hilarious visual refutation of Portland being on fire. You can't get a mass movement going without convincing the masses

so yes, this does do something actually

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This literally does nothing. You are not beating fascism by dressing up in inflatable suits and dancing

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Portland is leading the way. This is how you (non violently) beat Fascism. Humor and ridicule are key.

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Sparky Clarkson @sparkyclarkson.bsky.social · 23h

This guy is an absolute freak and it endangers this country to be entangled with his companies or use their tech in any way.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 23h

Exclusive: Tech billionaire Peter Thiel warned that Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and critics of AI are “legionnaires of the Antichrist” in private lectures that connected government oversight of Silicon Valley to an apocalyptic future.

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23h

We live in a country where the government honors insurrectionists who sacked the Capitol, and defines peaceful protest, even before it occurs, to be terrorism.
They know their position is weak, they know they are unpopular, which is why they are seeking to stamp out dissent.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 1d

White House staff should just make and show him an AI-generated video where he wins, fly him to Duluth and tell him it’s Oslo, and dare the New York Times to say anything more than “Experts disagree about whether Mr Trump was awarded the Nobel Prize”.

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 23h

There's only one political party that accepts the fact that your friends and neighbors may have different views than you.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "

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